[stalgivc]

find opportunities accept rejection and do it all over again

[soracities]

“NYT: What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet? TEJU COLE: I have not read most of the big 19th — century novels that people consider “essential,” nor most of the 20th-century ones for that matter. But this does not embarrass me. There are many films to see, many friends to visit, many walks to take, many playlists to assemble and many favorite books to reread. Life’s too short for anxious score-keeping. Also, my grandmother is illiterate, and she’s one of the best people I know. Reading is a deep personal consolation for me, but other things console, too.”

— Teju Cole, “Teju Cole: By The Book” A New York Times Q&A, March 6, 2014  (via prousts)

[equivocations]

fall colors of Green Lake, Seattle - watercolor, ink, and gouache; 3"x4"

[havingapoemwithyou]

Earl by Louis Jenkins

[sivavakkiyar]

posting is like bloodletting

[treasuredplanet]

the epic highs and lows of things that don't really matter to anyone but you

[farmgf]

favorite loré pemberton art part 3: winter edition (x)

[maykitz]

you forget what an insane, insane, insane step forward the ability to ctrl f keyword search digital texts or whole libraries for specific information is until you have to find something in analogue writing

[papayajuan2019]

near life experience

[loveshounds]

“You want to be the victim, but it is up to you not to be…of course it is coming, and will continue to come, from outside, but you sanction it. You react to it, and by doing so you clear a way for it. You want to be the one who is wrecked by it, but I cannot endorse that – for you can change it. You want them to have your ruin on their conscience…I do not think the world can change, but we can, and I wish you could…I am often very bitter when I think of you, and sometimes I cannot forgive myself for not hating you. But I cannot hate you. I only ask that you, by helping me, help yourself – that you help yourself.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann, from an unsent letter to Paul Celan featured in Paul Celan: Selections

[campsis]

KAREN ELKINGTON, DEATH OF DEMOCRACY, 2024

MIXED MEDIA ON BIRCH, 120 x 120 cm

[redstonedust]

advertisement is so constant and everywhere i have to wonder if it even works anymore. im aware my bus stop probably has ads on it but i couldnt tell you what for. i hear 'this video is sponsored by' and i start skipping ahead until its over. u can probably argue theyre still getting in your brain by becoming part of the white noise but like idk man. im feelin really "when everything is ads, nothing is." right now.

[drunkwhenimadethis]

"Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. ...Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. ...For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity."

G.K. Chesterton

[drunkwhenimadethis]

Heard this in a lecture by David R. Hawkins: "How you contextualize your life then is how you present yourself to the world and that's what you are to the world. The universe responds in like. When you are thus to the world, the world is thus to thee, and you walk safely through the hail of bullets and if one's meant for you, so? If you come out the other side then there wasn't one meant for you. That is the way it goes. That's complete surrender, is it not? The past is eliminated by the realization that a decent regret is all that's necessary. You can stop ruminating and trying to rewrite the past. Have a decent regret about it and let it go. I don't want to hear other people's chain's dragging. They wallow in the past because their ego is sucking the juice out of it."

[louisegluckpdf]

painting this on the ceiling above my bed so it's the first thing i see upon waking in the morning and the last thing i see before falling asleep at night

[soulmaking]

Grietje Postma, 1992-I, woodcut

[lyraeon]

not to be mistaken for toxic positivity again but my god you need to learn to love the oppressed more than you hate their oppressors or else you are just delighting in feeling righteous while leaving those in need out in the cold

[primulaceas]

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House